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Cricket, Kirikiti and Imperialism in Samoa, 1879-1939 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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Cricket, Kirikiti and Imperialism in Samoa, 1879-1939 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics
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This book considers how Samoans embraced and reshaped the English
game of cricket, recasting it as a distinctively Samoan pastime,
kirikiti. Starting with cricket's introduction to the islands in
1879, it uses both cricket and kirikiti to trace six decades of
contest between and within the categories of 'colonisers' and
'colonised.' How and why did Samoans adapt and appropriate the
imperial game? How did officials, missionaries, colonists, soldiers
and those with mixed foreign and Samoan heritage understand and
respond to the real and symbolic challenges kirikiti presented? And
how did Samoans use both games to navigate foreign colonialism(s)?
By investigating these questions, Benjamin Sacks suggests
alternative frameworks for conceptualising sporting transfer and
adoption, and advances understandings of how power, politics and
identity were manifested through sport, in Samoa and across the
globe.
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